The 1963 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were held in Spittal, Austria under the auspices of International Canoe Federation. It was the 8th edition. The women's folding K1 team event resumed after being absent from the program at 1961 championships.
| Event | align=center bgcolor="gold" | Gold | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points | align=center bgcolor="silver" | Silver | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points | align=center bgcolor="CC9966" | Bronze | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C1 | 361.1 | 378.1 | 382.4 | |||||||||
| C1 team | Manfred Schubert Gert Kleinert Karl-Heinz Wozniak | 443.5 | Norbert Schmidt Otto Stumpf Heiner Stumpf | 580.7 | Heinz Grobat Jean-Claude Tochon Marcel Roth | 613.3 | ||||||
| C2 | Günther Merkel Manfred Merkel | 336.2 | Natan Bernot Dare Bernot | 342.3 | Jürgen Noak Siegfried Lück | 343.8 | ||||||
| C2 team | Günther Merkel & Manfred Merkel Jürgen Noak & Siegfried Lück Rudolf Seifert & Manfred Glöckner | 479.4 | Kurt Longrich & Jürgen Hauschild Hermann Roock & Günter Brümmer Günther Tuchel & Wolf Dieter Seller | 787.4 | Bruno Kerbl & Klaus Gürtelbauer Anton Biegel & Helmut Schilhuber Franz Tutschka & Alfred Haberzettl | 1657.7 |
| Event | align=center bgcolor="gold" | Gold | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points | align=center bgcolor="silver" | Silver | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points | align=center bgcolor="CC9966" | Bronze | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Folding K1 | 266.7 | 274.5 | 299.4 | |||||||||
| Folding K1 team | Eberhard Gläser Rolf Luber Fritz Lange | 419.4 | Eugeniusz Kapłaniak Władysław Piecyk Bronisław Waruś | 421.4 | David Mitchell Geoffrey Dinsdale Martin Rohleder | 473.5 |
| Event | align=center bgcolor="gold" | Gold | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points | align=center bgcolor="silver" | Silver | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points | align=center bgcolor="CC9966" | Bronze | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C2 | Alenka Bernot Borut Justin | 372.1 | Margitta Krüger Werner Lempert | 411.2 | Vratislava Nováková Karel Novák | 422.7 |
| Event | align=center bgcolor="gold" | Gold | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points | align=center bgcolor="silver" | Silver | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points | align=center bgcolor="CC9966" | Bronze | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Folding K1 | 312.4 | 331.4 | 354.0 | |||||||||
| Folding K1 team | Ursula Gläser Anneliese Bauer Lia Merkel | 400.2 | Ludmila Veberová Jana Zvěřinová Renata Knýová | 401.7 | - |